From: Alicia Wise <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 09:23:45 +0000

*Information Power Expands*

Originally founded in 1985 Information Power is now expanding to best serve
its funder, information vendor, library, publisher, society, and university
clients. From January 2019 two new leaders step forward to drive the
consultancy business forward:  Lorraine Estelle and Alicia Wise. Together
the Information Power team has a strategic overview of the rapidly changing
information landscape, and the important trends and opportunities this
change brings, coupled with decades of combined management experience.

Helen Henderson, Founder, and Hazel Woodward welcomed this new phase for
the business.  “Lorraine and Alicia are well-known in the content and
information services space.  They are both accomplished and collaborative
professionals, and great communicators able to work effectively across the
full spectrum of stakeholders.  Their leadership of Information Power will
position us to offer thoughtful strategic advice on some of the thorniest
challenges of our times, for example the transition to Open Access.”

Together the Information Power team work with the full spectrum of
stakeholders to advance learning, research, and scholarly communication.
Team members are curating the 2019 Research & Scholarly Publishing Forum at
London Book Fair, for example. In recent years they undertook a Feasibility
Study on Monographs, delivered projects on e-book licensing and the total
cost of ownership of journal collections by university libraries, analysed
the usage of institutional repositories and developed a normalised usage
report, contributed to the development of Distributed Usage Logging, worked
with STM publishers to develop and deploy innovative business models for
consortium purchasing, and delivered the workshop and community
consultation for the report Open Access Fees and the Hybrid Journal.

Lorraine Estelle has experience in the development of new business models,
collaborative library services, and information standards. As CEO of Jisc
Collections, she has orchestrated UK library support for a range of
transformative open access initiatives and agreements. She developed the
first models to demonstrate the total cost of publication including APC
costs for UK academic institutions and led the first national negotiations
to successfully agree offset models to alleviate the cost faced by higher
education institutions in maintaining subscriptions to hybrid journals
while also paying APC charges. She also directed several research projects
and the development of national shared services. Through her continuing
role in COUNTER she is experienced with working collaboratively with
different types of publishers, societies and their professional
associations and libraries in reaching consensus. Lorraine is also
co-editor of the open access journal: Insights: the UKSG journal and is a
Main Committee member of UKSG.

Alicia Wise is an effective and experienced game changer working at the
intersection of copyright, digital technologies, policy, and people. Alicia
is known for her work as a communicator, influencer, and relationship
builder and as someone who can drive organisational development and
transformational change. She has more than 30 years’ experience in the
academic information space including roles with libraries, publishers, and
researchers. Most recently she was with Elsevier where she led on Open
Access and global strategic relations. Prior to this she held roles with
the Publishers Association, Publishers Licensing Society, Jisc, Archaeology
Data Service, and in universities. She has served on the boards of Access
to Research, Accessible Books Consortium, CHORUS, CLOCKSS, Digital
Preservation Coalition, and Research4Life.

*About Information Power:*

Information Power Ltd has provided consultancy services in the research
information space since 1985. The team works with funders, libraries,
consortia, publishers, agents, vendors, and universities to advance
learning, research, and scholarly communication.

http://www.informationpower.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/information-power/about/

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